Happy Thanksgiving.
I am new to this site and trying to figure out my way around these pages.
Wow a lot of info here. I am very new to engraving .will like the all help I can get. I have only made what I call scratch marks on metal with a hammer and chisel. Then purchased a air graver. Thanks PEPPER

Happy Thanksgiving.
I am new to this site and trying to figure out my way around these pages.
Wow a lot of info here. I am very new to engraving .will like the all help I can get. I have only made what I call scratch marks on metal with a hammer and chisel. Then purchased a air graver. Thanks PEPPER

Hi Pepper
Welcome to The Engraving Forum.
You know hammer and chisel and I believe then you acquired an Airgraver ,I think you are pretty on the engraving path now.
All The Best.
SE

__________________Learn from those who know more than you do and teach those who know less than you do. - I.M.

Thanks for the welcome .This is pretty far form what I did as a profession. I built cars and motorcycles But still working with metal .Now that I retired I need to something else. I having been learning gunsmithing for the last few years. The smith I work with has been teaching me everything,he builds mostly muzzleloaders and now got me started on trying to learn some engraving I like it.

Welcome Pepper; I started after retiring as well. it was something I was always interested in but life, time, work all that stuff gets in the way. The people on this forum are fantastic and I can only speak of what I have heard and my experience with the Lindsay tools. Both have been exceptional. I have the PC tool and templates; both The universal and the set of Ray Cover templates. I like them all because it makes repeatable results easy.

I took Ray Cover's beginner class and I would highly recommend it to anyone. Ray is a great teacher and I think the 4-5 days you spend there take a year off trying to learn by yourself. Im working now on getting my cuts decent enough to take the advanced class this summer.

I enjoy looking at the real craftsman's work on this forum, it inspires me to practice hard and aspire to be better. Its a fun hobby, I have AH moments daily at the bench. I found sharpening to be very important and would just pass that on to you. If you don't have templates I would suggest them as a great investment.

I built myself a power hone, not all that hard, and it has allowed me to rough in a graver in a few minutes which allows for several sharp gravers of each type at the ready when they run low a short session at the stones gets me back going again.